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... fires ! Strike - for the green graves of your sires , God , and your native land ! 17. Draw in a full breath , and read this stanza with low pitch , slow time , soft force , and slight volume : And now - farewell ! ' Tis hard to give ...
... fires ! Strike - for the green graves of your sires , God , and your native land ! 17. Draw in a full breath , and read this stanza with low pitch , slow time , soft force , and slight volume : And now - farewell ! ' Tis hard to give ...
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... FIRE ! FIRE ! the BARN's afire . " Your sister dies , and you say to a playmate who calls to inquire , “ She is dead , " and the lower tone with which you utter the last word makes it emphatic . 66 Cow " " The dog was the thing out of ...
... FIRE ! FIRE ! the BARN's afire . " Your sister dies , and you say to a playmate who calls to inquire , “ She is dead , " and the lower tone with which you utter the last word makes it emphatic . 66 Cow " " The dog was the thing out of ...
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... FIRE , FIRE " and " TREASON , TREASON " are used as single expressions . 2. Emphasis by Time . - Emphasis is sometimes given to a word or an expression by speaking it more slowly or more rapidly than the rest of the sentence , or by ...
... FIRE , FIRE " and " TREASON , TREASON " are used as single expressions . 2. Emphasis by Time . - Emphasis is sometimes given to a word or an expression by speaking it more slowly or more rapidly than the rest of the sentence , or by ...
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... fire , and seated myself beside it . 8. The night , which had been undisturbed , was nearly over , and I was beginning to reassure myself , when , about the time that I thought daybreak could not be very far off , I heard our host and ...
... fire , and seated myself beside it . 8. The night , which had been undisturbed , was nearly over , and I was beginning to reassure myself , when , about the time that I thought daybreak could not be very far off , I heard our host and ...
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... fire by the enemy's shot . 3. Sergeant A. M. Kenaday , of the Third United States Dragoons , with three comrades hurried to the wagon , determined at the risk of their lives to clear a passage for the general . 4. Before the general ...
... fire by the enemy's shot . 3. Sergeant A. M. Kenaday , of the Third United States Dragoons , with three comrades hurried to the wagon , determined at the risk of their lives to clear a passage for the general . 4. Before the general ...
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Page xviii - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
Page 380 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 246 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth; when he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of...
Page 256 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
Page 197 - The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
Page 329 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, — While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft ; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Page 255 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love, with fear, the only God ; to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 388 - WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — • Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt!
Page 386 - Men! with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch - stitch - stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt.
Page 246 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.